Northrop Grumman Australia · 12 hours ago
Staff Engineer Aeronautical
United States-California-Palmdale
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
$177K/yr - $266K/yr
8+ years expNorthrop Grumman is a leading aerospace and defense company, seeking a Staff Aeronautical Engineer to join their team. The role involves overseeing technical, cost, and schedule performance for complex projects, managing staff, and ensuring technical rigor in product rollouts and change management processes.
Defense & Space
No H1B
Security Clearance RequiredU.S. Citizen Only
Responsibilities
Responsible for the direct supervision/management of the staff. Providing objective-oriented direction to subordinates utilizing management guidelines & general policies
Serve as Deputy Integrated Product Lead Manager and DOA as required
Oversee technical, cost and schedule performance for complex technical projects for a wide range of systems and technologies
Ensure technical rigor, drive robust technical solutions, and lead product roll out efforts with cross functional Responsible Engineers (REs) to prepare change request packages from approval to completion
Ensure all change requests meet technical requirements to progress through the change management lifecycle to include presentations at Enterprise Technical Change Boards
Represent the multi-discipline engineering organization in Integrated Master Schedule working group meetings and meeting or beating technical implementation milestones
Attend program meetings and present all technical and programmatic engineering information
Identify and manage engineering risks, issues, and opportunities, including representing engineering in Risk Board meetings
Communicate prioritization from program leadership to technical execution teams
Interface between program/business management and technical team
Program responsibilities include planning and program performance addressing cost, schedule, technical performance, and quality of a work package, subsystem, or related group of work packages on a large system development-type contract or full responsibility for all aspects of program performance on a large delivery order or mid-size technical services-type contract
Lead a multi-disciplinary team to: Develop new projects for approval, including development of the requirements, statement of work (SOW), and schedule
Coordinate gathering of impacts and estimates for proposals
Develop and adhere to the budget baseline using the Earn Value Management (EVM) process, including development of discrete work packages, providing weekly status of IMS tasks, and providing input to monthly Estimate at Complete (EAC) updates
Manage execution of projects and technical tasks to completion and provide regular status updates to leadership
Assess, track, and mitigate technical, cost and schedule risk
Performs technical planning, system integration, verification and validation, cost and risk, and supportability and effectiveness analysis for total systems
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline and 12 years of related engineering experience; OR a Master's degree in a STEM discipline and 10 years of related engineering experience; OR a PhD in a STEM discipline and 8 years of related engineering experience
Familiarization with the Technical Change Management Process
Experience leading multi-disciplinary technical teams
Ability to work in a dynamic, fast paced environment, Action Oriented, Strong Attention to Detail, Communicates Effectively
Hands on experience in electronics engineering, systems engineering and/or aerospace engineering
Experience and knowledge of Project/Program Management processes to include Control Account Management (CAM) Earned Value Management (EVM), Risks – Issues - Opportunities (RIO) processes, project planning and scheduling, staffing, coordination and oversight of technical work effort
Microsoft Office skills (Power Point, Word, Excel)
Active in-Scope, DoD Top Secret clearance
Ability to obtain and maintain initial Special Program Access (SAP/PAR). This SAP/PAR must be obtained prior to commencement of employment and must be obtained within a reasonable amount of time as determined by the company to meet its business needs
Preferred
Current applicable SAP access
Experience with managing suppliers
Proven leadership abilities to manage, coordinate, and oversee multi-disciplinary teams located in numerous geographical locations
Benefits
Health insurance coverage
Life and disability insurance
Savings plan
Company paid holidays
Paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business
Company
Northrop Grumman Australia
Northrop Grumman Australia is the Australia-based arm of Northrop Grumman Corporation and committed to generating long-term prosperity, investing in advanced Research & Development, sovereign and exportable Intellectual Property, high-quality jobs and long-term technology leadership across the Commonwealth.
501-1000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageCompany data provided by crunchbase